Description: Negro Slave Songs In The United States Book Miles Mark Fisher 1953 HC Spirituals Minor wear to cover Strong binding Smoke free home Important study of the haunting melodies and swinging rhythms of African-American songs and spirituals of the antebellum South. The songs often encouraged African Americans to escape their enslavement. Fisher explores the connection between these songs, and their usage, in the passing of oral tradition and history from one individual to the next; from one generation to the next. A Black American historian and educator, Fisher was pastor of the White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina from 1933 to 1965. Negro Slave Songs in the United States was awarded the American Historical Association prize for the best book of 1953.
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Publication Name: Cornell University Press
Book Title: Negro Slave Songs in the United States
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 8.5in.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1953
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1950s
Item Height: 0.5in.
ISBN-10: 1446501442
Author: Miles Mark Fisher
Genre: Music, Antiquarian & Collectible, Religious & Spiritual, African American
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Soul Music, African Americans, spirituals, Religious History, slavery, Americana
Item Width: 5.5in.
Item Weight: 10.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 238 Pages
